seems like something serious is going on with turkey. It's not about their basketball. They look like they don't wanna be there. Hope it's not a power struggle in the team again like it happened a few years ago.
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I don't want them to usurp Great Britain's rights to play in second round and fight for a possible QF spot, if Turkey's gonna play like this.
Our offense:
Pg raises his hand (presumably calling for a pick)
Goes around the screen, tries P&R (8% success)
92%, Shoots a 3pt from the top. 90% misses.
Wait at the spot for the next offense.
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Originally posted by madmax View Postturks may be just trying to lull others into false sense of security by constantly underperforming
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Originally posted by Deschain View PostOur offense:
Pg raises his hand (presumably calling for a pick)
Goes around the screen, tries P&R (8% success)
92%, Shoots a 3pt from the top. 90% misses.
Wait at the spot for the next offense.yes and they do that as the slowest on earth as possible.
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Originally posted by Srle View PostSerbia without Milicic,Rakocevic,Stojakovic,Raduljica,Rakovic,Rad manovic,Pavlovic etc You guys are silly, both of you. Everybody missing playersMy homage to The heroes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOFlzU14Ivs
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Originally posted by Alyosha12 View PostHahah you really think your team would be better with those guys? Good thing your coach is not so dumb.
With Raduljica or Rakovic, why not ?
We can laugh to this post too:
Originally Posted by blackpeps View Post
Slovenia? Without: Vidmar, Brezec, Vujacic,Udrih,Nachbar
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Darjus is totally minus.. he dont give anything good to this team..i hope Kemzura see what he does, and how.. playing near the 3-point line, stupid tournovers..damm, what a bad center. Marijonas is 2500% better..he is nr.1 candidate to go out. Jankunas today playing so so not that bad in the offence, but in defence..he is very poor..he dont have any height, he dont have any power, and for 4th position songaila and ksistof is much better. i wont be surprised if kemzura will cut them tomorrow after game with Latvia. with Slovenia and Georgia we need to have final 12, and try to improve as much as possible, first - defence, and rebounding. And make a lot of shots to improve it..firsty for kaukenas, after lukauskis..
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The defence today by us is just awful.What I also noticed is that usually there are two russians under the basket and only one lithuanian defending.Also I don't really understand why Valanciunas is usually playing with Kalnietis on the court instead of Saras.I mean Jonas and Saras are just made to play together.On the other hand russian inside defence is pretty good.When we try to play pick and roll,they just put two russians under the basket and because of that they aren't letting lithuanians score easy baskets.Also they are doing a good job against Valanciunas today.When he tries to play with his back to the basket,russians just double team him and because of that he doesn't provoke a lot of fouls.Lietuvos rytas - signing your Yugoslavian scrubs since forever.
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Originally posted by AiwiTo View PostDarjus is totally minus.. he dont give anything good to this team..i hope Kemzura see what he does, and how.. playing near the 3-point line, stupid tournovers..damm, what a bad center. Marijonas is 2500% better..he is nr.1 candidate to go out. Jankunas today playing so so not that bad in the offence, but in defence..he is very poor..he dont have any height, he dont have any power, and for 4th position songaila and ksistof is much better. i wont be surprised if kemzura will cut them tomorrow after game with Latvia. with Slovenia and Georgia we need to have final 12, and try to improve as much as possible, first - defence, and rebounding. And make a lot of shots to improve it..firsty for kaukenas, after lukauskis..
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There are only three possible explanations for the Turkish fiasco.
a) They are working too hard on trainings, emphasizing physical strenght and they forgot about tactical preparations. That would explain low input, slow tempo, no hussle really.
b) The coach has no authority and the real leader is Hidayet. That would explain why he hogs the ball 3/4 of the time, and why he is taking so many forced 3pt shots. For me, this is the most logical explanation, as this coach is just a joke for such a big name team and not appropriate to jump in Tanjevič's shoes.
c) The Turkish team is so confident in themselves, they don't want to show any of their plays to public. I really doubt thought, that they would try this tactic and that it would actually pay off. I think they will be much better at the championship, as I still consider them as a medal contender. But surely this low motivation performances are ought to show it's consequences sooner or later at the tourney.
The real answer is probably a mix of all three options. Turkish team lacks real effort at the moment, looks tired and perhaps even over-confident and lacks both mentality and tactics, which is definitely a result of bad coaching.
It really is quite something different, the approach of the Turkish and Greek team which is slower, with less transition in contrast to plays of Spain, Lithuania, Slovenia and Russia also, who all showed a great emphasize on speed of the play at prep games. It seems like especially Turkish team is relying heavily on combination of "deadly" outside shooting (so far, it's been deadly only for them) with it's size and strength in the post. Greek team however looked brilliant today, but for them, this was a low quality preparation game, actually one not even worth having. It's best for them to forget it as soon as possible, as it is not a solid confidence builder, since it's based on a lousy performance by the Turks.
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Originally posted by Mindozas View Post62:72 after 3rd qtr in LT-Russia
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